Garbage-can support.



I K. E. CRAIG. GARBAGE CAN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29 I915.

1,16,?5. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

KATE E. CRAIG, 0F OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

GARBAGE-CAN SUPPORT.

Application filed March 29, 1915.

7 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, KATE E. CRAIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garbage-Can Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garbage-can support, and has for its principal object to provide a frame conforming in contour to the shape of the lower part of the can and provided with downwardly-projecting, outwardly divergent prongs which may be pressed into the ground as a holding means to prevent overturning of either the supporting frame or the can.

The invention includes a holder or support consisting of few and simple parts so that they may be. economically manufactured, will be durable in use, and may be conveniently assembled.

With the foregoing objects in view, the

invention presents a novel construction, com-.

bination and arrangement of parts as described herein and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the garbage-can support. Fig. 2 is a View in side elevation of the same, a garbage can also bein shown and supported thereby.

eferring now to the drawing for a. more particular description, the device consists of the upper and lower circular bands or rings indicated, respectively, at 8 and 4, these having any suitable diameter and being sustained in spaced relation by a plurality of holder-members 5,each member 5 respectively consisting of a rod, wire or metallic strand bent at one of its ends to provide a loop 6 for a mounting on the upper ring, and a vertically disposed brace 7, and bent adjacent to loop 6 to circumscribe the lower ring, as indicated at 8, and to provide a horizontally disposed brace 9 to extend radially to the middle part of the lower ring, and to be disposed in a plane parallel with the plane of said last named ring, and bent to less than a right angle at substantially the middle of the lower ring, as indicated at 10, to traverse a clasp-member 11 and to provide a terminal, downwardly-extending prong 12.

It will thus be seen that the device consists of few and simple parts, each holdermember comprising two rectilinear braces Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Nov. 30 1915. Serial No. 17,728.

dlsposed at right angles with reference to each other and adapted to engage the upper and lower rings, the clasp-member which is d sposed centrally, in the plane of the lower ring be ng traversed by each holder-member at the JllIlCtlOIl of its prong and horizontal brace.

\Vhile I have shown and prefer the use of four holder-members, a greater or lesser number may be employed, depending upon the diameter of the can to be supported, said holder-members being disposed at substant1 ally uniform longitudinal intervals of the rlngs, as shown in the drawing. The device may be used to advantage for the support of a garbage can 13, the prongs being pressed into the ground as shown in Fig. 2.

Since the braces 7 are disposed at right angles to braces 9 the can will be supported in a vertical position, preferably being seated upon members 9, as shown; and since each prong 12 is disposed at less than a right angle to the brace 9, of which it is an integral part, said prongs will be disposed outwardly-divergent with reference to each other and from clasp-member 11, to provide a very strong holding means to prevent the device from being overturned.

The advantages in the use of the device will be appreciated since the can may be conveniently removed from the support when it is required to dump the contents of the can into a wagon, and on account of the arrangement of the braces and prongs, the support efi'ectually prevents the can from being blown over by wind-storms or overturned by dogs or accidental causes.

While I have described construction with exactness as to details, and prefer the same, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to these details, nor to size, form or proportion, but prefer to limit myself only to the construction described in the appended claims.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. A garbage can support comprising a lower circular band, an upper circular band, a clasp-member disposed centrally in the plane of the lower band, a plurality of holdermembers, each consisting of a metallic strand bent to provide a rectilinear brace, a second rectilinear brace disposed at right angles to the first named brace and a prong disposed at less than a right angle to .the second brace, each of said holder-members being mounted with its first named brace in engagement with the upper and lower circular bands, its second brace being disposed radially of the bands in engagement with said clasp-member and its prong projecting downwardly from said clasp-member.

2. In a garbage can support, the combination of a ring, a second ring disposed above substantially parallel with the first named ring, a plurality of holder-members each consisting of a metallic strand bent to provide a rectilinear brace, a second rectilinear brace disposed at right anglesto the first named brace and a prong disposed at less than a right angle with reference to the second brace, said holder-members being dis- 7 posed with their first named braces in engagement at longitudinal intervals of said rings, their second braces extending radially of the rings with the prongs outwardlydivergent and below and an element disposed centrally of the first named ring in engagement with said the first named ring,

prongs for maintaining them in connected relation.-

' 3. A garbage can support, comprising a circular band, a second circular band, a plu rality of holder-members each consisting of a metallic strip bent at one of its ends to provide a loop for a mounting on the first named band and a rectilinear brace, and bent adjacent to said loop to circumscribe the second band and to provide a second'rectilinear brace disposed radially of said bands, and bent at less than a right angle to the second brace to provide a rectilinear prong extending downwardly from the first named band, and means upon said prongs adjacent to their junction with the second braces for maintaining them in connected relation.

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

KATE E. CRAIG. Witnesses: HIRAM A. Srnncns,

ARTHUR H. S'runcns. 

